Friday, 5 May 2017

Trump Spits Fire: DPRK Stands Firm!

By New Worker
correspondent

Imperialist
war-lord Donald Trump continues to spit fire at north Korea whilst his armada
stands off the Korean peninsula and his nuclear bombers hover over the occupied
south. The Americans want the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to
unilaterally and unconditionally abandon its nuclear deterrent, threatening all
sorts of nonsense if this doesn’t happen. The US imperialists warn that the
“era of strategic patience” is over whilst their emissaries go into top gear
across Asia to drum up support amongst their vassals and puppets for renewed
American aggression.

Some believe Trump’s brinkmanship is
largely to speed up the deployment of the US THAAD missile system in south
Korea and influence the puppet regime’s forthcoming elections in favour of the
most aggressive and venal sections of the south Korean ruling class. Others fear
that it marks a new stage in the US bid to control both sides of the Pacific
Rim and extend their hegemony throughout Asia.

Two American B-1 Lancer supersonic bombers
conducted joint exercises with south Korean war-planes on Monday, before
staging a separate drill with fighter jets from the USS Carl Vinson aircraft carrier that heads the naval strike group in
waters near the Korean coast.

The DPRK called the exercises an
"extremely reckless move” that was pushing the region towards nuclear war;
and the Korean People’s Army staged its own show of force with live-fire
exercises along the coast that involved 300 heavy artillery pieces, the largest
drill in the army’s history.

This week Trump said he was prepared to
meet DPRK leader Kim Jong Un "under the right circumstances”. "If it
would be appropriate for me to meet with him, I would absolutely, I would be
honoured to do it," Trump said – but his officials later said that such a
meeting is unlikely in the near future.

Meanwhile
People’s China is urging urged all parties to take on their responsibilities
and find a breakthrough to resume peace talks at an early date.

Trump is publicly urging China to
pressurise the DPRK into halting its missile and nuclear defence programmes
following apparently successful talks with Chinese leader Xi Jinping in April.

No-one knows what was agreed behind closed
doors at the Trump mansion in Florida last month, or whether the halt to
imports of north Korean coal reflects a new rapprochement between Washington
and Beijing.

Overall trade between the DPRK and China
has risen this year despite sanctions, which in any case do not apply to all
north Korean exports. What is true is that China broke ranks with the Russians
at the UN Security Council last month by refusing to join the Kremlin in
vetoing a US-led motion that sought to sanction Syria for the poison gas attack
in a rebel-controlled area last month.

Although the Democratic Korean government
has said nothing directly about the Chinese stance, the DPRK’s national media
ran a commentary last week denouncing a “neighbouring country” for “dancing to
the tune of others”.

It said: “Not a single word about the US
act of pushing the situation on the Korean peninsula to the brink of a war
after introducing hugest-ever strategic assets into the waters off the Korean
peninsula is made, but such rhetoric as ‘necessary step’ and ‘reaction at
decisive level’ is openly heard from a country around the DPRK to intimidate it
over its measures for self-defence.”

This country: “is talking rubbish that the
DPRK has to reconsider the importance of relations with it and that it can help
preserve security of the DPRK and offer necessary support and aid for its
economic prosperity, claiming the latter will not be able to survive the strict
‘economic sanctions’ by someone.

“Its official media claimed on 18th
April that the DPRK's pursuance of a nuclear and missile programme made the US,
which had been its rival in the past, its supporter now. The question is what
the DPRK should call that country and how the DPRK should deal with it in the
future…

“If this country keeps applying economic
sanctions on the DPRK while dancing to the tune of someone after misjudging the
will of the DPRK, it may be applauded by the enemies of the DPRK but it should
get itself ready to face the catastrophic consequences in the relations with
the DPRK. The DPRK will defend its dignity and build a paradise for the people
with its own efforts, rallied close around the respected Supreme Leader.”